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A painting believed to be lost during the Nazis’ persecution of the Jewish people will continue to remain in a famed Italian collection after negotiations with the heirs to the work’s original owners. The work, Madonna and Child with the Young St John and Two Angels (1480–85) by Jacopo del Sellaio (a.k.a. # Jacopo di Arcangelo), a student of Renaissance master Filippo Lippi, is owned by the Cerruti Collection in Turin, but was once among the holdings Viennese art collector Gustav Arens, who purchased it from Galerie Sanct Lucas in Vienna in 1936. The painting was among those bequeathed by Italian collector Francesco Federico Cerruti, who purchased it in the 1980s, to the Castello di Rivoli Museum in Turin after his death in 2015. The director of the Castello di Rivoli, said, “Our intention was to find an equitable agreement, which includes monetary compensation, and an amicable agreement, which takes into consideration the wishes of the Castello di Rivoli to continue to exhibit the work, so that it would not be lost again.” #art #artnews #italianart #castellodirivoli #jacopodelsellaio #jacopodiarcangelo #cerruti #cerruticollection #turin #artist #renaissance